The local government in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang has said that a clash between authorities and assailants left 21 people dead in what it described as an act of terrorism.

Suzanne Joinson

At least 12 people have been killed in riots in north-west China, state media reported.

A jihadist group has released a video claiming responsibility for recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people.

Seven people allegedly involved in plotting terrorism have been sentenced to death for robbery and murder in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, state-run media reported.

Ethnic Uighurs clashed with armed police today in a fresh protest in Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people arrested in western China’s worst ethnic violence in decades.

VIOLENT street battles killed at least 156 people and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit China’s western Xinjiang region in decades, and officials said yesterday the death toll was expected to rise.

China executed two people today for what a court described as an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics with an attack that killed 17 police.

A CHINESE court yesterday sentenced two people to death for what it said was an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics with an attack in the far-west region of Xinjiang that killed 17 police four days before the Games.

Explosions rocked a county in western China, killing at least two people amid tightened security following an attack last week before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

China has stepped up its already-tight Olympics security in the wake of the suspected Islamic terrorist attack that killed 16 policemen.

Sixteen police officers were killed today when an unknown group rammed a border patrol station on China’s Central Asian frontier before throwing in grenades.

Thousands of earthquake survivors in western China prepared to spend a fourth night outdoors in freezing conditions as aftershocks continued to jolt the isolated area, a relief worker said today.

AT least 258 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured yesterday when an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale ripped through a remote area in northwest China.

Hundreds of armed pro-Taliban Pakistanis seized a remote northern town today and demanded that the military-led Government should stop supporting the US-led strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, witnesses said.

An exhausted driver sent an overcrowded bus plunging into a river in northwestern China, killing 34 passengers.